An ethical person - like a politician, banker or lawyer - may know right from wrong, but unlike many of them, a moral person lives it. An Americanist first already knows that.
Bankers and their government agents will always act in their own best interests. Any residual benefit flowing down to the citizens by happenstance will just be litter.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Class Warfare Is Being Used To Divide America

- - and It Is Working!

May 1, 2012

By Michael Snyder

The
mainstream media and most of our politicians love to pit us against one
another in dozens of different ways, and right now class warfare has
become one of their favorite tools for getting us to hate one another.
If you are struggling in this economy, you are being told that “the
wealthy” are the cause of your problems.

If you have money, you are being told that the poor hate you and want
to tax you into oblivion. Class warfare has already become a dominant
theme in the 2012 race for the White House, and there will certainly be
endless speeches given along these lines by politicians from both major
political parties all the way up to election day. Class warfare will be
used by both sides as a way to divide America and get votes. And the
frightening thing is that it is clearly working. There is more hatred
between the poor and the wealthy in America today than at any other time
that I can remember. But hating people because of how much money they
have or don’t have is not going to solve anything. Instead, it is just
going to cause more problems.

The other day, Yale economics professor Robert Shiller told CNBC that the globe is already in a state of “late Great Depression“.
The United States is heading into unprecedented economic and financial
problems and we desperately need to pull together as a country and solve
these problems.

But instead, our leaders are tapping into the politics of division in a desperate attempt to get elected in the fall.

Rather than focus on real issues and real solutions, our politicians
attempt to make “the wealthy” or “welfare recipients” the focus of our
debates.

Well, you know what?

Most people that are rich and most people that are poor are not
purposely trying to abuse the system. Most of them are hard working
people that are trying to do the best that they can in a world that is
increasingly going crazy.

These days, the Occupy Wall Street crowd loves to talk about how evil
the “1 percent” is. But most of the “1 percent” are people that have
worked really hard and that have been fortunate enough to get some
really good breaks in life.

Yes, there are some among the “1 percent” that do some really bad things. The too big to fail banks and the big money managers on Wall Street should be held accountable for the crimes that they have committed.

But most wealthy Americans are not trying to oppress the poor. Most
of them are just trying to do the best that they can for themselves and
their families.